152 FERRET FACTS AND FANCIES. 



42 holes, rabbit tracks by the wholesale and no 

 human tracks to be seen. We fairly went wild 

 at the sight and whooped and hallooed. After ten 

 minutes' prancing around we began to set 

 pouches. We got the thirty pouches set that we 

 had and then began filling up the other holes 

 with rocks, chunks of wood, in fact an^^thing 

 that would keep the rabbits from coming out of 

 the holes. The den covered an area of 100 yards 

 long by 30 yards wide, among rocks and timber, 

 some of the holes being very difficult to find. 



Everything ready, we placed the ferret in one 

 of the holes but in a second he stuck his nose out 

 of another, then back he went at lightning speed. 

 We waited for at least ten minutes, then we 

 heard a slight noise, then we saw the ferret at 

 one of the holes. He nosed around a few minutes 

 then went back in the same hole. He was hardly 

 out of sight when out came a rabbit and landed 

 in a pouch. Then the work began, to take out 

 the rabbits and replace the pouches. In a half 

 hour we had six more, then we waited another 

 half hour and got no more. Then we packed up 

 our pouches, rabbits and ferret. As long as the 

 ferret is willing to stay in a hole you may expect 

 another rabbit, but when the ferret does not go 

 back in the hole of its own accord, you may rest 

 assured that there are no more rabbits in the 



